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Johnny Giles

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Michael John Giles (born 6 November 1940) is an Irish former association football player and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s. After retiring from management in 1985, Giles served as the senior analyst on RTÉ Sport's coverage of association football from 1986 until 2016. He was nominated for the 1972 Ballon d'Orand the FAI voted Giles as the greatest Irish player of the last 50 years at the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004. After winning an FA Cup winner's medal under Matt Busby at Manchester United, Giles moved to Leeds in 1963 where he played in midfield alongside captain Billy Bremner. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johnny Giles is the 6,265th most popular soccer player (down from 5,514th in 2019), the 351st most popular biography from Ireland (down from 327th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Irish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Johnny Giles ranks 6,265 out of 21,273. Before him are Ladislav Vízek, Sam Hutchinson, Pedro Uralde, Yugo Iiyama, Koichi Hirono, and Mahmoud Guendouz. After him are Lutz Pfannenstiel, Jan van Diepenbeek, Eugenio Leal, Carlos Daniel Tapia, Petter Hansson, and Katsumi Oenoki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Johnny Giles ranks 573. Before him are Silvia Torres-Peimbert, Bjørn Tidmand, Chelato Uclés, Joanna Miles, Candi Staton, and Graham McRae. After him are Miguel Ángel Loayza, Beth Fowler, Alexander Almetov, Fontella Bass, William Ferguson, and Peter Ryan.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Johnny Giles ranks 351 out of 549. Before him are Christy Moore (1945), Duncan Hamilton (1920), Derek Daly (1953), Stephen Kelly (1983), Con Leahy (1876), and William J. Duane (1780). After him are Paul McShane (1986), William Smith O'Brien (1803), Johnny Carey (1919), Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822), Joseph Plunkett (1887), and Sally Rooney (1991).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ireland

Among soccer players born in Ireland, Johnny Giles ranks 19. Before him are Tony Dunne (1941), Frank O'Farrell (1927), John McKenna (1855), Matt Doherty (1992), Billy Whelan (1935), and Stephen Kelly (1983). After him are Paul McShane (1986), Johnny Carey (1919), Denis Irwin (1965), Damien Duff (1979), Shay Given (1976), and Steve Heighway (1947).

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